Quake Editor Tread 3.0 Alpha Released 27
Joe Riedel writes "The alpha version of Tread 3.0, a Quake series map editor, has been released (including source code). Independent game developers and hobbyists who are looking for an editing tool may also want to check it out since it should provide a good starting point for their own tools (and it's free). This latest incarnation of the editor is unrelated source-wise from its predecessors; it is based on an in-house tool I developed a few years ago."
slashdot != digg (Score:1, Insightful)
since when was a quake2 map editor front page news on slashdot...?
Re:others (Score:5, Insightful)
The difference appears to be that this one has been the subject of a slashdot submission, while the others have not. Which makes perfect sense on the part of the author.
I would like to draw your attention to a rather crappy aspect of the website that hosts this thing: there is no clue there WHAT IT IS. Without the help of the summary you cannot even figure out that this is an editor for Quake.
Is it so bloody hard to write a note somewhere that this is in fact a piece of software that runs on (whatever OS) and does (whatever task)? Is it so bloody hard to mention the fact that this is in fact for the ancient Quake 1/2 games, rather than a recent version?
I've said it before, but there is only ONE company in IT that can afford to not mention their core products on their front page, and that's Microsoft. Everybody else needs to describe WHAT THEIR WARES ACTUALLY DO.